I will follow my instincts, be myself for good or ill, and see what will be the upshot.

…their eager, childlike attention was refreshing to see as compared with the decent, deathlike apathy of weary civilized people, in whom natural curiosity has been quenched in toil and care and poor, shallow comfort.

Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.

The most distinctive, and perhaps the most impressive, characteristic of American scenery is its wilderness.

I wonder if leaves feel lonely when they see their neighbors falling?

Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity.

There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords.